You know if I’m not eating candy or writing about candy, I’m out on the internet reading about candy and looking at candy photos.
Last week I stumbled across two incredible sets of photos on Flickr, here’s a small sample:
Joshua has over 175 photos of individual pieces of Halloween candy, both wrapped and then unwrapped.
I emailed him, and he gave me the story behind it. He collected a barrel of candy (50 gallons!) for Halloween as part of his work as a youth pastor. They did a huge challenge called the Pumpkin Hunt for middle and high school aged kids, kind of like a treasure hunt:
We divide kids up into teams of like 4-6 each and they race through different clues that send ‘em all over the place in our community and the first one to make it to the candy wins. There’s also a combination lock on the candy, and along the way they pick up 3 numbers to the lock and have to get ‘em in order and unlock the padlock to actually win.
Wow, way harder than Trick-or-Treat, but it sounds a lot more fun. I wonder if the winner got the whole 50 gallons?
SUPERB
YUMMY 
TASTY 
WORTH IT 
TEMPTING 
PLEASANT 
BENIGN 
UNAPPEALING 
APPALLING 
INEDIBLE 
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Suzanne on 4/24/06 at 12:41 pm #
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liane on 5/06/06 at 6:59 am #
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Cybele on 5/06/06 at 7:43 am #
Commenting is not available in this channel entry.That sounds like a blast! I bet they got the whole 50 gallons because they had to share with their teammates. Good deal.
Is the store in New York?
Liane
Liane - the story isn’t about a store, it’s just a guy who organized a giveaway for kids in his youth group but photographed all the candy beforehand.
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